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Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their…
Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their distresses. In a sermon at Boston; made in the audience of His Excellency the governor, and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-England. 12 d. Im. 1719. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]Concio ad populum. A distressed people entertained with proposals for the relief of their distresses. In a sermon at Boston; made in the audience of His Excellency the governour, and the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay, New-England. 12 d. Im. 1719. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1719
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Valley of Vision IN The Valley of Achor. BOSTON 12 d. Im. 1719.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Divine Sentence which we now find in the Lips of the King, may be in a Singular and a Transcendent Manner applied unto an Evangelical Intention; And therefore, Pious Cares, that our Ungospellized Places, may have the Vision of a Glorious CHRIST and His Gospel, not withheld from them, are herein very powerfully Recommended, very powerfully Animated. But there is no need of laying such a Restraint upon our Understanding of the Proverb, and the Interpretation, and this Word of the Wise. A Doctor who has written a Commentary on the Proverbs, has thus glossed very well upon it. If there be no One, that Studies to see the Will of GOD, and Labours by Teaching to make the People see it; If there be no One that is Watchful to see the Faults of the People, and is Careful by Reproving to make the People see them; how can it be otherwise, but that they should Perish, or be drawn away, as the Original Word is, from the Law of the Lord?
THE Divine Sentence which we now find in the Lips of the King, may be in a Singular and a Transcendent Manner applied unto an Evangelical Intention; And therefore, Pious Cares, that our Ungospellized Places, may have the Vision of a Glorious CHRIST and His Gospel, not witheld from them, are herein very powerfully Recommended, very powerfully Animated. But there is no need of laying such a Restraint upon our Understanding of the Proverb, and the Interpretation, and this Word of the Wise. A Doctor who has written a Commentary on the Proverbs, has thus glossed very well upon it. If there be no One, that Studies to see the Will of GOD, and Labours by Teaching to make the People see it; If there be no One that is Watchful to see the Faults of the People, and is Careful by Reproving to make the People see them; how can it be otherwise, but that they should Perish, or be drawn away, as the Original Word is, from the Law of the Lord?
THE Text with such a Gloss upon it, furnishes me with a Commission for a Work, which I had never been Overcome to Undertake, if the Love of my Country, with a View of the Distress and great Perplexity which every One sees hastening upon it, had not been as a Burning Fire shut up in my Bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could stay no longer.